Atam P. Dhawan, PhD, completed his doctorate in electrical engineering as a Canadian Commonwealth Fellow at the University of Manitoba in 1985. Dr. Dhawan is a former chair of the Emerging Technology Committee of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society of the IEEE and was a professor of bioengineering at the University of Toledo and director of Medical Imaging and Informatics Laboratory. Currently, he is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.